GOW, Sadie Masters

GOW, Mrs Sadie Masters Gow who died on Sunday was born in Stowell Hospital, Battery Point, Hobart on 10th November 1920 to James Hardy and Doris Gould of 11 Bay Road, New Town.

Mrs Gow was a granddaughter of Mrs Amelia Rose Stephens, O.B.E. who was a Miss Stanfield and granddaughter of Daniel Standfield, who served with the Royal Marines in H.M.S Sirius in the original expedition to Sydney. He settled on a property first known as Cove Farm, Hobart. At the outbreak of the Second World War Sadie joined the war effort - after training in Signals, Morse Code, telephony, telegraphy, mapping, surveying, first aid and Nursing in Melbourne then Brisbane, eventually sailed to Lae, Papua New Guinea with 11 girls on a Troopship - the Katoomba.

Also on the Katoomba was a group of 5 men who were members of a select and secret organisation of Aust. Intelligence Bureau personnel.

Sadie became engaged to one of its members Sidney Alan Gow.

Alan had spent 3 years working in the Operating Theatre of 2/2 Aust. Hospital Kantari Middle East. When Alan was returned to Aust. he spent the next 3 years operating behind enemy lines on New Britain in a group of 6 men as a Coast Watcher supplying intelligent information to the Americans. For his effort he was awarded the British Empire Medal. Alan died in 2004 Sadie and Alan married in 1947, she relished her time with Alan living in Geroka. Their 3 girls were born there, Judith Anderson, Prudence Johnston and Louise Scudamore. Philanthropic work, travelled widely. She was a loving sister and mother to Penelope Jane Trethewey and Elizabeth Anne Rood, her daughters, her grandson Jonathan, granddaughters Nikki and Amelia and her great-grandchildren.

She will be sadly missed.

Funeral details to be advised.